BLAKE: NEW SouTH AMERICAN VERBESINAS 431 
rather harshly iaaditonptie with antrorse-curve 
hairs, densely so along the chief veins, beneath meinem peo rather 
so tly griseous-pilosulous, featherve ined, the veinlets impressed 
above, prominent-reticulate beneath ; peduncles elistignte axillary 
and doubtless terminal; heads 6-10 mm. igh, 4 mm. thick, 
numerous in a flattish cymose panicle 14.5 cm. wide, its branches 
and the pedicels ae 2-8 mm. long) densely said: pilosulous; 
involucre 2-seriate, graduate, igh, the phyllaries few, 
oblong or linear-oblong, whitish-stramineous, wit 
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rounded subherbaceous tips, sordid-pilosulous and ciliate; 
flowers 20-22, their corollas white, hirsute-pilose on tube and to 
middle of throat, 4.5 mm. long; pales obtuse to acute, hispidulous 
above, about 7 mm. long; achenes flat, cuneate-obovate, very 
narrowly 2-winged, finely hispidulous on edge of wings and 
sparsely so on the body, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; awns 2, 
slender, subequal, upwardly hispidulous, about 3.5 mm. long. 
Colombia; Open ground, La Cumbre, Dept. El Valle, Cor- 
dillera Occidental, alt. 1500-1750 m., 7-10 May 1922, F. W. 
Pennell 5200 (type no. 1,140,127, U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Although its discoid heads artificially place this species in 
the section Lipactinia, its real relationship is with species of 
the section Ochractinia. This is shown not only by its whole 
habit and the color of its florets, but by the fact that several 
of the outer florets sometimes have imperfect anthers, suggesting 
that rays may be developed at times. It is distinguished from 
V. columbiana Robinson by its perfectly glabrous stem and 
discoid, fewer-flowered heads (flowers about 38 in V. columbiana), 
and from V. myriocephala Schultz Bip. by the longer, more 
spreading, sordid pubescence of its lower leaf surface, as well 
as by the absence of rays. 
Verbesina minuticeps, sp. nov. 
Tall herb; stem glabrous, glaucesc leaves alternate, 
large, pinnately lobed, Sonica Mines beneath, the 
petioles winged throughout, shortly auriculate-decurrent; heads 
tiny, Hic white, about 15-flowered, very numerous in a large 
cymose panicle. 
erb about 4.5 m. high; stem stout, I.2 cm. thick, . 
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glabrous or with a few minute appre essed hairs in lea 
seme ovate in see about 38 cm. long (including nétidle, 
this 12-14 cm. lon nged throughout, about 1.2 cm. wide, 
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